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Sulla: Last Dictator before Julius Caesar and the End of the Roman Republic

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He set the stage for Julius Caesar to later seize political power through force and end Republican Rome. Introduction Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix[2,3,4] 138–78 BC), known commonly as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman and one of the canonical figures of Roman history. He had the distinction of holding the office of consul twice,[…]

Sulla’s Reforms as Dictator in the Ancient Roman Republic

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The political climate was marked by civil discord and rampant political violence. By Jesse SifuentesHistorian Introduction Lucius Cornelius Sulla (l. 138 – 78 BCE) enacted his constitutional reforms (81 BCE) as dictator to strengthen the Roman Senate’s power. Sulla was born in a very turbulent era of Rome’s history, which has often been described as[…]